Latest News - Jubilee Woods

Plant a tree for a Jubilee baby
Date: 21 May 2012
Planting a tree to mark a birth is a wonderful gift, and it also makes a great souvenir for the Jubilee. It's inspired the team at Emma's Diary to team up with us to offer plant a tree for a Jubilee baby in a special Jubilee babies grove at our flagship Diamond Wood. So if you know a Jubilee baby then why not mark their special birth with a tree.
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Flagship Diamond Wood - Free family event Friday 1 June
Date: 14 May 2012
Start your Jubilee celebrations with royalty! Join Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal for a fabulous free day out at our new Flagship Diamond Wood on Friday 1 June from 9am - 3pm.
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Composer inspired by the Woodland Trust's Jubilee Woods project to create music with a tree theme
Date: 10 May 2012
A special concert to celebrate The Queen's Diamond Jubilee will see the first performance of a new cantata based on the way trees and woodland impact our lives.
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We’re halfway to achieving our target – three million trees in the ground, three million to go!
Date: 26 April 2012
The Woodland Trust is celebrating a major success in its Jubilee Woods project. We’ve now planted three million trees since the start of the project.
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The Woodland Trust’s Jubilee Woods project to benefit from the Asprey Chris Levine Jubilee Project
Date: 11 April 2012
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York celebrates the Queen’s Jubilee with a Diamond Wood
Date: 06 April 2012
The University of York celebrated the Queen’s visit to York on Thursday 5th April 2012 and her 60-year reign with the creation of a very special Diamond Wood on its new £750m million campus extension at Heslington East.
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Have you spotted any bluebells yet?
Date: 29 March 2012
With April just around the corner the bluebell season is arriving. With flowers blooming across the UK what a wonderful time it is to visit our woods to see these in their natural habitat.
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Former Olympians help Queen’s University Sport put down new roots
Date: 16 March 2012
Former Olympians Mary Peters and Jim Kirkwood have helped a new generation of athletes put down roots at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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We’re celebrating an amazing one million trees planted in February
Date: 06 March 2012
We set ourselves an amazing challenge to kick start our year of tree planting for the Jubilee Woods project – to plant one million trees in February. And we have achieved this in fantastic style, with Dermot O’Leary planting the millionth tree
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Whitehead Diamond begins to sparkle
Date: 06 March 2012
A ‘Diamond Wood’ at Bentra, Whitehead is glowing with life thanks to the handiwork of nature lovers. Over 1,000 members of the public - schoolchildren, local people and visitors - transformed the landscape by planting thousands of trees during a week-long series of events in celebration of the Queen’s historic Diamond Jubilee. Read more.
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